re: Business Major

I'm an Accounting grad student fwiw. I just know that I know several people who majored in some type of engineering that were average students with no experience, and got great paying jobs directly out of college. The ones who actually tried and did internships in college are making even better money.

On the other hand, I know several [obviously] accounting students that have graduated in the past two years, who all have good jobs for sure, but make probably 10-20% less than the engineering guys. Pretty much every engineer I know makes 60-80k, some outliers substantially more, either in Houston or NOLA. I finish my MS in Acct next August, with my CPA done hopefully by October of this year, and I would be happy with anything around 50. Every person I know that has graduated in the past two years and gone to a Big4 makes under 65, most closer to 50.

Some of those people just have an undergrad, none of them had a MS and/or CPA completed when they applied, and I don't know how those salaries scale over 10 years or so, but that's been my experience with starting salaries of engineers and accountants.

ISDS majors seems to do alright, the rest are pretty much a crap shoot though depending on your grades and your persistence in getting at least one internship, especially if you go with something like management or marketing.